Woo Hoo!

Somehow, Public Works got that crap cleaned off!!

Two months

What's it been?  Less than two months since the grand opening of the beautiful new restrooms located between Wiggly Giggly Park and Bainbridge Park?  Well, the vandals can't seem to let a good deed go unpunished.

The beautiful redwood doors crafted by a local woodworker has been broken and tagged.

and the men's room door has been kicked in and the sign stolen.

A city like all cities.  Two sides.  Love and hate. 

Illegitimi non carborundum

What do you see?

1. Looking West down Laurel Street.
2. Marine layer is in.  Clear over the Pacific.
3. Ol' 45 is getting ready for it's morning run.
4. It's smoke is drifting south meaning a breeze from the north.
5. Must be about 8:00.  Street lights are out but the stores not open.
6. Yup.  Fort Bragg, Coastal style.

Remember when?

August 2nd, 2006

Pounding the first piling for the V.Starr Community Center and swimming pool!!  Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the opening of the facility!  

There will be a BIG PARTY.  I hope to see you there!!

Invasion??

So, here it is two days later and I am walking home from the V. Starr swimming pool and what do I see?  Another Praying Mantis!!!  This one didn't make it and had been flattened by a car.  I'm sure it couldn't be the same one I rescued Tuesday because that one was half a mile from where I found this one!  But then, what do I know.

Weird.

Unusal sighting.

During my early morning walk I spotted this Praying Mantis in the middle of Harold Street by the Middle School.  I have never seen one "in the wild" before.  I picked it up and moved it to the safety of the bushes by the Senior Center where hopefully it will have a longer life.  Unfortunately I didn't have my "good" camera with me and had to "make do" with my cell phone.

Big bug!  The main body must have been over two inches long!

I found this in Wikipedia:

Diet and predatory behavior

Mantises are exclusively predatory. Insects form the primary diet, but larger species have been known to prey on small lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, fish and even rodents; they will prey upon any species small enough to successfully capture and devour. Most species of mantis are known to engage in cannibalism. The majority of mantises are ambush predators, waiting for prey to stray too near. The mantis then lashes out at remarkable speed. Some ground and bark species, however, pursue their prey rather quickly. Prey items are caught and held securely with grasping, spiked forelegs.

Good thing I got it off the street.  Kids walk right by here on their way to school, which has already resumed this year!

I'm walking in sunshine!!

Sunday the sunshine finally won over the coastal Marine Layer.  You can see it off in the distance.  I tell you, it was about time.  The middle of August and in the mid 50's.  I know a lot of folks in the mid west would be happy with 55 degrees about now but.....

Here's that house again only this time with the early morning sunrise shining upon it.

Like a joke, if I have to explain it...., but.  I spotted this homework assignment, love letter, note to someone, whatever, laying in the road on the crossing stripe by the high school.  It was dew soaked, therefore translucent and lit by a sodium vapor street light.  Kind of an interesting photo.

Road kill.  Looks like I photo-shopped the head but I didn't.  Ugly bastard!

And to end on a higher note.  Yellow hot pokers??